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When my son was about 3, he told us how he remembered being a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. This was in 1998.
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My parents don’t use reddit so I’ll answer this for them. I think i was 3 playing with a corkscrew when i blurted out that “I used to have one of these when I had black hair” (I’m blond). My parents said they asked me what it was and I responded that it’s used for opening wine. Freaked the hell out of them.
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Apparently when I was really little, around 3 or so, I told my mom that this was my last time here, that I wasn’t going to come back.
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My daughter would refer to me as her “new mommy.” Then, as her vocabulary increased, she said “You’re my new mommy, but it’s ok, I like you.” Then one day, “You’re my new mommy. I had two brothers, but they all died, but it’s ok bc I like you.” She never mentioned her “real” family again. Last time she did she was was about 3 or 4 years old.
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My daughter asked me, “Remember my fancy hat,” and when I said no, she said, “Yeah, before I was dead, I used to work in a bank. I saved my money and bought a hat in a round box. I was on the bus and a man almost sat on it. Then the bus crashed and I died.” She was about three and totally casual about it.
Editing for clarity: My daughter definitely knew about hat boxes; she was very into musicals, one of which was Easter Parade, a movie where fancy hats were a very big deal. She went through a phase of being really interested in death after my mom died, so I think that’s where the bus crash came from. At the time, we were talking a lot about death and dying and the idea that accidents can kill a person and how scary that is. I personally think kids say weird stuff because they aren’t yet fully wired, mentally-I reportedly used to talk to a Teddy Bear that lived in a cabinet at about the same age, and would sit there happily chatting at an open door for ages.
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This was told to me by my parents. When I was 6 or so my dad was watching a war documentary and it talked about a tube. I then said “you mean the tube from when i was a grown up?” My dad asked me to explain more and I said “me and another person was put in a tube with a knife and was tasked to kill the other person but i got stabbed in the chest”. He says it still keeps him up at night.
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As soon as I could talk (about 2) I would tell my parents about my ‘moon’ family and how I had lived with them until I said a bad word and got sent to earth and landed in a bush where my mom made a salad from the leaves and that’s how she had me.
I would make my mom so mad by telling her she was doing stuff differently than my moon mama.
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When I was about 4 I walked in to the Laundry where Mum was doing the washing and asked her what she was doing, then stood there with my hands on my hips and said “when I was old I didn’t do it like THAT” Another time I sat bolt upright from a nightmare and mum, trying to comfort me asked about the dream and where she was and I apparently said coldly “I told you mummy, it was a long time ago, you weren’t there” and just went back to sleep. Kids are spooky, not having them for fear they’ll be the horror movie kind that scurry past doorways in the dark!
